Company loses case for MonkeySays.com.
A company that sells t-shirts and tote bags emblazoned with the saying “Monkey Says” has lost its attempt to grab the domain name MonkeySays.com through a UDRP case.
Monkey-Says, LLC, which owns the domain names monkey-says.com and monkeysays.net tried to upgrade its domain with the help of National Arbitration Forum. But the one person panel denied it.
The company clearly knew the owner of MonkeySays.com registered the domain years before it started using its trademark. After all, the company registered monkeysays.net because the .com wasn’t available. Still, it argued that the respondent registered the domain in bad faith because he renewed it.
The panel wasn’t having any of those arguments, writing:
This Panel agrees with Respondent in the fact that Respondent could not possibly have had the purpose of disrupting the business that would not exist for years into the future.
Monkey-Says, LLC was represented by Daniel J. Holmander of Barlow, Josephs & Holmes Ltd.
3 Pound Hammer says
Monkey says that Monkey-Says, LLC was trying to steal this domain through RDNH ( Reverse Domain Name Hijacking ). Of course this is just one monkey’s opinion.
Those monkeys over there at Monkey-Says, LLC should be ashamed monkeys.
What a dirty company. Nobody should do business with a company like that, run by monkey wanna-be domain thieves, IMO.
Bo says
They should if they don’t already charge a significant fee to those that lose to discouage frivolous domain complaints.
FarmerJohn says
They can always apply for gTLD .ape